Tobacco and Cigarette Events
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- Flavored cigarettes attract minors to smoking
Published on June 30, 2008 6:42 AM
Health researchers found that flavored cigarettes attract minors to smoking . That’s why for the first time, Congress is attempting to regulate tobacco by eliminating cigarette flavoring such as clove and cinnamon in an effort to minimize …
- Rising cigarette prices - bad idea
Published on June 16, 2008 5:21 AM
Lawmakers have proposed raising taxes on Japanese cigarettes , because Japan is a country where smoking kills about 100,000 people every year. Japan Tobacco Inc ., the world's third-largest cigarette maker, stated that the higher cigare …
- Otitis media and passive smoking
Published on June 6, 2008 4:39 AM
A group of researchers from Perth’s Telethon Institute for Child Health Research have found a strong link between childhood ear infections and passive smoking . The scientists investigated the causes of otitis media (middle ear infection …
- Should Multiple Sclerosis patients stop smoking?
Published on June 2, 2008 3:53 AM
Scientists have studied 368 smokers and nonsmokers with Multiple Sclerosis in order to find the effects of smoking . They have found that people who have multiple sclerosis should not smoke, because smoking can increase the size of brain ti …
- Smoking ban is supposed to save lives
Published on May 29, 2008 7:25 AM
World Health Organization has noticed that banning smoking in public places is supposed to save lives. It encourages people to smoke less, in that way they do themselves and those around them less harm. The way the smoking ban works may …
- Temp cigarettes are re-born
Published on April 24, 2008 2:37 AM
Recently, Tutun CTC , a Moldavian tobacco producer and seller, has launched a new variety of one of its famous Temp brand , Temp Export into the local market. As the producer stated, Temp Export is an improved variation of the old Temp bra …
- The quantity of decline in smoking is related directly to the cigarette tax increase
Published on April 21, 2008 3:41 AM
The USA Congress considers that higher cigarette taxes have produced sharp declines in consumption. Anti-tobacco researchers have also shown that the amount of decline in smoking is connected directly to the size of the tax increase. In …
- Smoking ban leads to deeper smoking
Published on April 15, 2008 5:45 AM
The ban has led to different reversed statistics that raise curiosity and many questions in same time. Recently, a report was published concerning the raise of fatal car accidents in USA since the ban launching. The smoking ban should reduc …
- New anti-smoking laws in Ontario
Published on April 9, 2008 3:58 AM
Business owners and smokers from Ontario noted that new legislation, aiming to halt smoking among people, may hinder sales of tobacco products . Antismoking experts advised business owners to install new racks in order to cover cigare …
- Higher tobacco taxes results in decreased tobacco usage
Published on April 7, 2008 9:55 AM
The nation needs a strategy to reduce the death and disability caused by the use of tobacco products . Numerous measures have been employed to successfully reduce the demand for tobacco products, reduce smoking prevalence, limit youth initi …